Oooookaaaay...this was the last thing I expected to emerge when I finally felt compelled to put pencil to paper again...inspiration does strike from odd corners.

Basically, I had to work a 13+ hour graveyard shift, from 9PM to around 10AM, and as my shift was winding down, two words connected in my head and sparked an urge to draw. The words?

Teen. Lantern.

Now, there HAVE been previous holders of the name, both in-canon and not, the first being a quartet of teens trapped on the patchwork world of the old comic "Green Lantern: Mosaic" who were given low-powered GL rings by John Stewart and encouraged to act as explorers and ambassadors to try and unify all the alien races trapped there...which, frankly, is a Hell of a lot more interesting concept in itself than the bulk of "GL:M" was in it's entirety...before everyone was returned to their home planets, Hal went crazy and killed off the Corps, and Kyle Rayner spent the 90's as "The Last Green Lantern."

Makes you wonder what happened to those four fake rings...

The arguably better-known bearer of the name, though, was a one-shot character in the spin-off comic from the recent "Legion of Super-Heroes" toon. In it, Teen Lantern was Jordana Gardner, descendant of Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner, a waif-er thin red-headed cypher who appeared once and vanished just as quickly.

The original thought here was that this was going to be another GL from the Legion timeline (Hell, how many GLs does Earth have nowadays? Two in the future would be no big deal), which is why her name is, like the redhead, composed from two GL last names, Kyle Rayner and John Stewart. The more I think about it, though, I think I prefer the idea of her being in the present day, somehow independent of the GL Corps proper but still carrying the name and legacy, like a "Young Justice" version of her uncle/cousin (gotta find out who is still alive in John's immediate family) who also pays homage to Kyle in her artist background and wild imagination towards ring constructs (and to her choice of wearing his old mask)...a lotta people forget that John's character went through about 90% of its development into the GL we know today while Kyle was the only GL and John was his close friend and occasional mentor, so it'd make sense that John would've, at some point, introduced Rahne to Kyle.

...which leads me to trying to figure out where the Hell her ring comes from. Maybe after the destruction of the Central Battery by Parallax-Hal, the four Mosaic rings, rather than disperse, instead fused together into one ring, inert in John's possession. Years later, Kyle first ditches his iconic 90's uniform when he becomes fused with the GL energy being and first becomes "Ion"...and, eventually, the mask, accidentally and unknowingly irradiated by the Ion entity, eventually finds its way to the Mosaic ring, priming it so that, when the Central Battery is restored and the Ion entity starts playing hopscotch with its hosts, the mask ends up taking on the properties of a Lantern and channeling the energy into the forgotten ring. Because of this limited source and its pre-"Rebirth" origins, this ring has the painfully literal limits of the Silver Age GLs aginst the color yellow and a set 24-hour charge. How to get it into Rahne's hands, however, will need to be determined...

Anyway, I posted my horrible attempt at coloring here first so that the much better looking B&W sketch is my top gallery image, since I don't know when my next urge to draw will hit yet but I did want to show off what her uniform looks like. For the record, yes I DO love big clumpy boots on girls and, frankly, there needs to be more caped Green Lanterns.